Pseudochazara schahrudensis

Pseudochazara schahrudensis or Shahrud grayling is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is confined to Bitlis, Hakkari, Van, Şırnak in Turkey; to the Caucasus to the eastern Alborz.

Pseudochazara schahrudensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Pseudochazara
Species:
P. schahrudensis
Binomial name
Pseudochazara schahrudensis
(Staudinger, 1881)
Synonyms
  • Satyrus pelopea schahrudensis Staudinger, 1881

Habitat

In Armenia the species occupies dry clayey and stony habitats including semi-deserts and mountain steppes at 1000–2500 metres above sea level.[2]

Flight period

The species is univoltine and is on wing from June to September.

Food plants

Larvae feed on grasses.

Subspecies
  • Pseudochazara schahrudensis schahrudensis Turkey, Armenia, and Dagestan
  • Pseudochazara schahrudensis nukatli (Bogdanov, 2000) Verkhny (near) Gunib. Nukatl' Mts – Dagestan

References
  1. "Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. http://www.butterfly-conservation-armenia.org/pseudochazara-schahrudensis.html


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